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Isaiah 36 (WEBP)

[1] Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.
[2] The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
[3] Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder came out to him.
[4] Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘The great king, the king of Assyria, says, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
[5] I say that your counsel and strength for the war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
[6] Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
[7] But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?”
[8] Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
[9] How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
[10] Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, “Go up against this land, and destroy it.”’”
[11] Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak to us in the Jews’ language in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
[12] But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”
[13] Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
[14] The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you.
[15] Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”’
[16] Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern;
[17] until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
[18] Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
[19] Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?
[20] Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
[21] But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”
[22] Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Isaiah 36 (KJVS)

[1] Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
[2] And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
[3] Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
[4] And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
[5] I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
[6] Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
[7] But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
[8] Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
[9] How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
[10] And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
[11] Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
[12] But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
[13] Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
[14] Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
[15] Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
[16] Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
[17] until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
[18] Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
[19] Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
[20] Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
[21] But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
[22] Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 36:3 Or, secretary
Isaiah 36:5 Heb. a word of lips
Isaiah 36:8 Or, hostages
Isaiah 36:16 Or, seek my favour by a present. Heb. make with me a blessing

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Isaiah 36 (BYZ)

[1] Καὶ () ἐγένετο () τοῦ () τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτου () ἔτους () βασιλεύοντος () Εζεκιου () ἀνέβη () Σενναχηριμ βασιλεὺς () Ἀσσυρίων ἐπὶ () τὰς () πόλεις () τῆς () Ιουδαίας () τὰς () ὀχυρὰς καὶ () ἔλαβεν () αὐτάς. ()
[2] Καὶ () ἀπέστειλεν () βασιλεὺς () Ἀσσυρίων Ραψακην ἐκ () Λαχις εἰς () Ιερουσαλημ () πρὸς () τὸν () βασιλέα () Εζεκιαν () μετὰ () δυνάμεως () πολλῆς, () καὶ () ἔστη () ἐν () τῷ () ὑδραγωγῷ τῆς () κολυμβήθρας () τῆς () ἄνω () ἐν () τῇ () ὁδῷ () τοῦ () ἀγροῦ () τοῦ () γναφέως. ()
[3] Καὶ () ἐξῆλθεν () πρὸς () αὐτὸν () Ελιακιμ () ὁ () τοῦ () Χελκιου ὁ () οἰκονόμος () καὶ () Σομνας ὁ () γραμματεὺς () καὶ () Ιωαχ ὁ () τοῦ () Ασαφ ὁ () ὑπομνηματογράφος.
[4] Καὶ () εἶπεν () αὐτοῖς () Ραψακης Εἴπατε () Εζεκια () Τάδε () λέγει () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () ὁ () μέγας () βασιλεὺς () Ἀσσυρίων Τί () πεποιθὼς () εἶ; ()
[5] Μὴ () ἐν () βουλῇ () ἢ () λόγοις () χειλέων () παράταξις γίνεται; () Καὶ () νῦν () ἐπὶ () τίνι () πέποιθας () ὅτι () ἀπειθεῖς () μοι; ()
[6] Ἰδοὺ () πεποιθὼς () εἶ () ἐπὶ () τὴν () ῥάβδον () τὴν () καλαμίνην τὴν () τεθλασμένην ταύτην, () ἐπ’ () Αἴγυπτον· () ὃς () ἂν () ἐπ’ () αὐτὴν () ἐπιστηρισθῇ, () εἰσελεύσεται () εἰς () τὴν () χεῖρα () αὐτοῦ· () οὕτως () ἐστὶν () Φαραω () βασιλεὺς () Αἰγύπτου () καὶ () πάντες () οἱ () πεποιθότες () ἐπ’ () αὐτῷ. ()
[7] Εἰ () δὲ () λέγετε () Ἐπὶ () κύριον () τὸν () θεὸν () ἡμῶν () πεποίθαμεν, ()
[8] νῦν () μείχθητε () τῷ () κυρίῳ () μου () τῷ () βασιλεῖ () Ἀσσυρίων, καὶ () δώσω () ὑμῖν () δισχιλίαν () ἵππον, () εἰ () δυνήσεσθε () δοῦναι () ἀναβάτας ἐπ’ () αὐτούς. ()
[9] Καὶ () πῶς () δύνασθε () ἀποστρέψαι () εἰς () πρόσωπον () τοπάρχου ἑνός; () Οἰκέται () εἰσὶν () οἱ () πεποιθότες () ἐπ’ () Αἰγυπτίοις () εἰς () ἵππον () καὶ () ἀναβάτην.
[10] Καὶ () νῦν () μὴ () ἄνευ () κυρίου () ἀνέβημεν () ἐπὶ () τὴν () χώραν () ταύτην () πολεμῆσαι () αὐτήν; ()
[11] Καὶ () εἶπεν () πρὸς () αὐτὸν () Ελιακιμ () καὶ () Σομνας καὶ () Ιωαχ Λάλησον () πρὸς () τοὺς () παῖδάς () σου () Συριστί, ἀκούομεν () γὰρ () ἡμεῖς, () καὶ () μὴ () λάλει () πρὸς () ἡμᾶς () Ιουδαιστί· καὶ () ἵνα () τί () λαλεῖς () εἰς () τὰ () ὦτα () τῶν () ἀνθρώπων () τῶν () ἐπὶ () τῷ () τείχει; ()
[12] Καὶ () εἶπεν () Ραψακης πρὸς () αὐτούς () Μὴ () πρὸς () τὸν () κύριον () ὑμῶν () ἢ () πρὸς () ὑμᾶς () ἀπέσταλκέν () με () ὁ () κύριός () μου () λαλῆσαι () τοὺς () λόγους () τούτους; () Οὐχὶ () πρὸς () τοὺς () ἀνθρώπους () τοὺς () καθημένους () ἐπὶ () τῷ () τείχει, () ἵνα () φάγωσιν () κόπρον καὶ () πίωσιν () οὖρον μεθ’ () ὑμῶν () ἅμα; ()
[13] Καὶ () ἔστη () Ραψακης καὶ () ἐβόησεν () φωνῇ () μεγάλῃ () Ιουδαιστὶ καὶ () εἶπεν () Ἀκούσατε () τοὺς () λόγους () τοῦ () βασιλέως () τοῦ () μεγάλου () βασιλέως () Ἀσσυρίων
[14] Τάδε () λέγει () ὁ () βασιλεύς () Μὴ () ἀπατάτω () ὑμᾶς () Εζεκιας () λόγοις, () οἳ () οὐ () δυνήσονται () ῥύσασθαι () ὑμᾶς· ()
[15] καὶ () μὴ () λεγέτω () ὑμῖν () Εζεκιας () ὅτι () Ῥύσεται () ὑμᾶς () ὁ () θεός, () καὶ () οὐ () μὴ () παραδοθῇ () ἡ () πόλις () αὕτη () ἐν () χειρὶ () βασιλέως () Ἀσσυρίων·
[16] μὴ () ἀκούετε () Εζεκιου. () Τάδε () λέγει () ὁ () βασιλεὺς () Ἀσσυρίων Εἰ () βούλεσθε () εὐλογηθῆναι, () ἐκπορεύεσθε () πρός () με () καὶ () φάγεσθε ἕκαστος () τὴν () ἄμπελον () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () τὰς () συκᾶς () καὶ () πίεσθε () ὕδωρ () τοῦ () λάκκου ὑμῶν, ()
[17] ἕως () ἂν () ἔλθω () καὶ () λάβω () ὑμᾶς () εἰς () γῆν () ὡς () ἡ () γῆ () ὑμῶν, () γῆ () σίτου () καὶ () οἴνου () καὶ () ἄρτων () καὶ () ἀμπελώνων. ()
[18] Μὴ () ὑμᾶς () ἀπατάτω () Εζεκιας () λέγων () Ὁ () θεὸς () ὑμῶν () ῥύσεται () ὑμᾶς. () Μὴ () ἐρρύσαντο () οἱ () θεοὶ () τῶν () ἐθνῶν () ἕκαστος () τὴν () ἑαυτοῦ () χώραν () ἐκ () χειρὸς () βασιλέως () Ἀσσυρίων;
[19] Ποῦ () ἐστιν () ὁ () θεὸς () Αιμαθ καὶ () Αρφαθ; Καὶ () ποῦ () ὁ () θεὸς () τῆς () πόλεως () Σεπφαριμ; Μὴ () ἐδύναντο () ῥύσασθαι () Σαμάρειαν () ἐκ () χειρός () μου; ()
[20] Τίς () τῶν () θεῶν () πάντων () τῶν () ἐθνῶν () τούτων () ἐρρύσατο () τὴν () γῆν () αὐτοῦ () ἐκ () τῆς () χειρός () μου, () ὅτι () ῥύσεται () ὁ () θεὸς () Ιερουσαλημ () ἐκ () χειρός () μου; ()
[21] Καὶ () ἐσιώπησαν, () καὶ () οὐδεὶς () ἀπεκρίθη () αὐτῷ () λόγον () διὰ () τὸ () προστάξαι () τὸν () βασιλέα () μηδένα () ἀποκριθῆναι. ()
[22] Καὶ () εἰσῆλθεν () Ελιακιμ () ὁ () τοῦ () Χελκιου ὁ () οἰκονόμος () καὶ () Σομνας ὁ () γραμματεὺς () τῆς () δυνάμεως () καὶ () Ιωαχ ὁ () τοῦ () Ασαφ ὁ () ὑπομνηματογράφος πρὸς () Εζεκιαν () ἐσχισμένοι () τοὺς () χιτῶνας () καὶ () ἀπήγγειλαν () αὐτῷ () τοὺς () λόγους () Ραψακου.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.